Rhode Island · Nonprofit
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $408,543 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($178,082). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $409k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode Island does
Mission
Animal rescue rhode island (arri) is dedicated to rescuing companion animals in need and to the humane welfare of homeless animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Shlter, humane education, and community pet pantry: established in 1938, the Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode Island (animal rescue ri or arri) is a limited admission shelter that can accomodate up to 44 cats and small animals and 20 dogs at any one time. Arri accepts pets surrendered by their owners, transfers in from other ri shelters and rescue organizations, and shelters in other states. In 2025, consistent with the belief that every animal coming into the shelter deserves a second chance at a loving home, arri took in 485 animals and adopted out 504. At arri, pets are not euhanized due to space, time, breed, or treatable behavioral or medical condition. Arri is also a resource for the broader ri community. Its humane education programs, collectively called arri animal scholars, are designed to enhance the human-animal bond for children and the animals in their lives, while preparing the next generation to be responsible, informed pet owners. With the addition of programs for families, more than 1,750 individuals ages 4-94 attended animal scholars presentations in 2025. Arris community pet food pantry, stocked by donations and run by volunteers, provided more than 80,000…
$804,786 spent$116,392 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $804,786.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.0M to $3.3M (+12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Skrobisch
Exec. Director
Board chair
Marcia Izzi
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $74k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 66% · 2019 72% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $138k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND?
- ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND (Rhode Island) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $408,543 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($178,082). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $408,543 in grants to ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $178,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing